Mileage-ticket and case.



No. 65|,I5|. Patented lune 5, |900.

W. C. VANNEMAN.

MILEAGE TICKET AND CASE.

(Application led Apr. 17, 1899.)

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VILLIAM C. VANNEMAN, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JENNIE O. HICKEY, OF LEIPSIO, OHIO.

NIlLEAGE-TI'CKET AND CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 651,151, dated June 5, 1900.

Application led April 17, 1899. Serial No. 713,255. (No model.) i

T0 all whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. VANNEMAN, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of. Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mileage-Tickets'and Cases, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a combined mileage-coupon ticket and the case therefor, theV ticket being so connected that it will readily pull out, but cannot be moved back into the case. The case also is so constructed that it cannot be opened after the ticket is once folded and secured therein. The ticket is so printed that the number of miles used or the number of miles of coupons unused can in no Way be determined'without breaking the seal or breaking the original package-case, so as to immediately and completely expose the fact that the case had been tampered With. There are very many obvious advantages in the employment of such a mileage-ticketin a case. As no person can tell the number of unused coupons in the case, it will not be salable by scalpers or travelers. Again, the party purchasing the lnileage book or case may be required to leave his signature with the ticket agent and may be required to sign the tickets taken off by the conductor on the train, which are compared by the auditor with the original signature and if found t-o be signed by an unauthorized person the purchaser Will forfeit the rebate, Which is frequently paid to the purchasers after the mileage tickets or coupons have all been used. Thus this system is adapted to be used with the rebate or the absolute sale of the mileagetickets, Whichever system the railroads may desire to employ.

The features of my invention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in Which- Figure lis the preferred form of the ticketoase before it is closed. Fig.Y 2 represents the ticket inclosed in the case and the case sealed. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a modified form of the case.

v folded down in place.

' strip after it had been Withdrawn.

commodate the folds of the ticket T, which is 6o folded and laid into the space between the slat i and the lower end of the case j. Upon the outer cover h and upon the inside thereof is placed a slat n, which rests upon the protruding end of the ticketT when the cover b is ,65

The ticket is secured at one end Within the case, the free end passing over slat t' and under slat n, as shown in Fig. 3, and, issuing through the open end of the case, follows a'tortuous frictional passage, rendering it impossible to insert the ticket- The slat z' holds the folds of the ticket in place and yet allows the uppermost folds to be drawn out over slat t and under slat n, yet the ticket cannot be put back. i

Instead of constructing the case so that it can be folded, locked, and sealed the covers of the case may be made Without the lockand seal and the covers of the case firmly glued 8o together, so as to prevent itfrom bein g opened Without entirely destroying one of the walls of the case.

The coupons and the folds are preferably numbered in sets of tens or more; but no serialnulnber for the entire number of coupons is employed. Say a ticket contained one thousand miles,these will be indicated by nu'- merals serially arranged from l up to any given factor-say 10 7--and of course there 9o Would be one hundred such series to make the total. Thus it is impossible for any person to determine Without either the destruction of either the seal or the case the number of coupons used or unused.

The case will bear the ticket-number, as

SeCll 16 m3111161'.

Having described my invention, what I claimis- 1. A case for mileage-books closed at the front and back, two sides and one end, friction devices attached to the opposing faces of the front and back near the open end and arranged one in front ot the other to form a tortuous passage, and a mileage-stripsecured within the case, the free end passing between the friction devices and issuing from the open end of the case, substantially as specified.

2. A mileagestrip and t,iclet-casc, the said case being closed upon the front, back, two sides and 011e end, the strip secured at one end within the case, friction devices secured on opposite sides ot the strip within the case near the open end, one being arranged in front of the other to form a tortuous passage, the said devices being adapted to en gage between them the free end ot the strip as it issues Vfrom the open end of the case, substantially as specified.

A3. .The combination ot' a mileage case and ticket, the case being closed upon the front, back, two sides and one end, a mileage-strip secured at one end within the case, the said strip containing a given number of miles indicated by a repeating series of numerals printed thereon running from l up to any selected factor of the sum total of miles, friction devices located between the covers near the open end arranged to Aform a tortnous passage adapted to frictionally engage the free end of the ticket substantially as described.

4. The combination of a mileage ease and ticket the case being closed upon the front, back, two sides and one end, a mileage-strip secured at one end within the case indicated by a repeating series ot numerals serially printed thereon from one up to any selected factor of the sum total of miles, friction de vices depending from the opposing face of front and back near the open end, one of said devices being arranged in front of the other forming a tortuous passage adapted to frictionall y engage the free end of the strip passingbetween them, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a permanentlyclosed case having an opening therein, of a continuous ticket-slip in said case comprising a plurality ot complementary parts `or tickets each provided with indicating characters, the characters on the several parts or tickets being the saine, and means for pre-` venting the return of the ticket-slip to the case, substantially as specilied.

t5. The combination with a permanentlyclosed vcase having an opening therein, of a continuous ticket-slip in said case comprising a plurality of complementary portions each provided with indicating characters, the characters on one portion having no relation to thecharacters on another portion whereby it is impossible to tell from one portion how much of the slip remains in the case, and means for preventing the return to the case of a portion ot the slip witlulrawn, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

VILLIAM C. VANNEMAN.

Vitnesses:

It. P. Games, C. K. McCULLoUcn-I. 

